Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.~Christa McAuliffe

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The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.~Christa McAuliffe

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Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.~Christa McAuliffe

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My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.~Christa McAuliffe

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I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.~Christa McAuliffe

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We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!~Christa McAuliffe

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I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.~Christa McAuliffe

If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.~Christa McAuliffe

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I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.~Christa McAuliffe

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My sympathies have always been for working-class people.~Christa McAuliffe

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Space is going to be commonplace.~Christa McAuliffe

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We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen.~Christa McAuliffe

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I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.~Christa McAuliffe

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It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.~Christa McAuliffe

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NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.~Christa McAuliffe